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		<div class="heading"><a href="../help.html">Help</a> &gt; 12. Manage groups</div>
		<div class="content">This section gives you an overview the system administration group management page and its capabilities.</div>
		
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			<div class="heading">12.1. Group list:</div>
			The group list displays all of the group users have created on the system and their description. The group list allows you to select one a group and perform various administrative tasks on it, such as:
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				<li>adding new groups</li>
				<li>editing existing groups</li>
				<li>deleting existing groups</li>
				<li>sending SMS messages to all of the members of a group</li>
				<li>sending email messages to all of the members of a group</li>
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			<div class="heading">12.2. Add new group:</div>
			When adding a new group, you typically will supply an unique group name, description and logo URL. If your group will have a chat room then you must also supply a AFCS chat URL in order for the chat room to function correctly.
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			By checking off the various module check boxes you can enable and disable which module plugins are displayed on the group's profile page.
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			<div class="heading">12.3. Set group sponsors:</div>
			Optionally, if you group has sponsors, you may add the sponsor details and website using the add sponsor page.
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			<div class="heading">12.4. SMS group:</div>
			The sending SMS messages is managed by the world wide SMS service operator <a href="http://www.clickatell.com">Clickatell</a>. In order to send a SMS message to a group you only need to supply your own Clickatell HTTP account details and the message you wish to send.
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			<div class="heading">12.5. Email group:</div>
			In order to sent an email message to a group, you need to supply a from address, subject and message body.
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